ONDO rallies 7% as exchange supply declines and social dominance rises

ONDO, a DeFi token added 7% to its value on Saturday as the asset featured in higher number of discussions on social media platforms. Crypto intelligence tracker Santiment tracks the metric social dominance and helps identify the assets that are gaining traction among traders. 

A large wallet investor withdrew Ethereum and bought ONDO on Friday, ahead of the DeFi token’s price gains. 

ONDO price rallies amidst dwindling exchange supply

ONDO gains relevance among traders as more participants seek risk-isolated, fixed yield loans backed by yield-generating cryptocurrencies. The social dominance of the DeFi token surged to its 2024 peak on Saturday, as seen on crypto intelligence tracker Santiment. 

ONDO social dominance

Another key on-chain metric, supply on exchanges shows that ONDO supply is at its lowest level in 2024. Exchange supply helps identify the selling pressure on the asset, higher the exchange supply, higher the likelihood of tokens being sold for profits. This negatively influences prices. 

ONDO supply on exchanges has consistently declined in 2024. 

ONDO supply on exchanges 

Data from crypto intelligence tracker Lookonchain shows that a whale withdrew nearly $6 million in Ether from an exchange and used it to buy ONDO, on Friday. The whale was likely preparing for the ONDO price rally. 

At the time of writing, ONDO is trading at $1.016, as seen on Binance, up 7% on the day. 

(This story was corrected on May 20 at 05:00 GMT to say, in the headline, that social dominance rises instead of social rises.)